Around the Year in 52 Books discussion

🪷🪷🪷🪷🪷 BEGIN ATY 🪷🪷🪷🪷🪷

OFFICIAL CHALLENGE
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1. A book from a genre that starts with A, T, or Y: YA: If You Find Me
2. A book with a primarily red, green or blue cover: The Eleventh Hour: A Quintet of Stories

3. A book that fits a prompt suggestion for this year that did not make the list: A book that would fit the 26th prompt from any ATY52 year: 2021: A short book (<210 pages) by a new to you author: Why Do You Dance When You Walk? by Abdourahman A. Waberi, Djibouti
4. A book by a new-to-you author: Carmen Posadas - Little Indiscretions
5. A book you want to read because of something you read in 2025: The Ungrateful Refugee by Dina Nayeri. I read her brother Daniel's book "Everything Sad is Untrue" which is on the same topic but written for middle grade.
6. A book related to blood, sweat, or tears: All the Colors of the Dark
7. A book with a character who appears in more than one book: Col. Race - Sparkling Cyanide
8. A book set in Africa, Asia, or Australia: Africa - Co-Wives, Co-Widows
9. A book with a number, ordinal, or iterative numeral in the title: Nineteen Steps
10. An award winning book: Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction (2024): The Berry Pickers
11. A historical fiction book: Byron and the Beauty
12. A book with cover text that is NOT black or white: gold: I See You've Called in Dead
13. An author's second/sophomore book: Brendan Slocumb - Symphony of Secrets
16. A book featuring a character with a similar occupation to one of the Clue/Cluedo characters: maid: The Housemaid
18. A book with a location in the title: Death on the Nile, other book with the character Col. Race
22. A book by a Korean or Korean-diaspora author: Gu Byeong-mo - Apartment Women
23. A book with a road trip or long journey: Less Is Lost
26. A book with a Z in the title and/or author name: Zuleikha - Guzel Yakhina
27. A nonfiction book: One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
28. A book related to a resistance, rebellion, or revolution: The Silence and the Roar
29. A vacation book: An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good
30. The most recently published book by an author…Kate Atkinson - Death at the Sign of the Rook
31… and a book from that same author's backlist: Transcription
32. A novella of 100-250 pages: Pereira Maintains
33. A book with an Indigenous character or author: both New Zealand Māori: Where the Rekohu Bone Sings
34. A book with a window on the cover: The Murder of Mr. Wickham

35. A book where all or part of the action takes place in a library, a museum, a school, or another public building: The Library
36. A book with a primary character who is a woman over 40: Mother-Daughter Murder Night
37. A book that includes a science topic: Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy
38. A book that's part of a series: Dorothy Sayers Peter Whimsey and Harriet Vine: Have His Carcase
39. A book connected in some way to the "Queen of Crime", Agatha Christie: In the Shadow of Agatha Christie: Classic Crime Fiction by Forgotten Female Writers: 1850-1917
40. A book that has a punctuation mark in the title: Martyr!
41. A mystery or true crime book: Gone Before Goodbye
42. A book set in an isolated location: I Who Have Never Known Men
46. A book that is not a novel: short story collection: What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours
47. A book with "this", "that", "these", or "those" in the title: I Need You to Read This
48. A book with something edible in the title: Black Cake
49. A second book for your favorite prompt: A novella of 100-250 pages: The Good Life Elsewhere
50. A book with a bird on its cover: Death at Bishop's Keep

51. A book published in 2026: The Murder at World's End

REJECT CHALLENGE
includes the prompts for the "Lists and Awards" challenge and the "Science, Social Issues, and A Sense of Place" challenge

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Prompts by theme:
GENRE
1. A Bildungsroman (coming-of-age) book: Checkout 19
2. A biography, memoir, or autofiction: A Manual for Cleaning Women
3. A book on one of Goodreads New Releases by Genre page: Hot Wax
4. A book related to medical science or health: The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight
5. A book related to psychology, mental health or neuroscience: Selfless Act of Breathing
7. A book tagged by Goodreads readers as Literary Fiction: Happiness: A Novel
8. A magical realism or magical book: Ghost in my Suitcase
9. A mystery without a murder: Gaudy Night

JUST PLAIN FUN
10. a book by an author who shares one of your initials: H: Sadie Hartwell - A Knit before Dying
11. A book related to baking: Icing on the Murder
12. A book related to penguins: Death and the Penguin
13. A book that would fill a favorite prompt from last year's list: A Mystery or True Crime book: The Locked Room
21. A book with the word friend in the description: My Friends

LITERARY AWARENESS
22. A book about books: The Cat Who Saved Books
24. A book featured as a Book of the Month Club pick: The Lost Story (2024)
25. A book from any widely recognized list of your choice: PBS Great American Read: Ghost
26. A book from the NPR “Books We Love” lists: The Vanishing Half
27. A book listed in any ‘Best Books’ list of 2024 or 2025: Colored Television
28. A book on one of Obama’s reading lists: Anything is Possible
29. A book posted in one of the ATY Best Book of the Month threads in 2025 or 2026: Endling; The River Has Roots; Lula Dean's: Hazelbourne Ladies; Behind you is the sea; island of missing trees
30. A book set in an alternate history or an imaginary world/universe: Bozamba's Revenge
31. A book shortlisted for a Dublin Literary Award: Arthur & George
32. A book that has been long-listed for the Tournament of Books in any year: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
34. A book that was nominated for a Goodreads Choice Award in any year: I have some Questions for You
35. A book that won an international literary award: author, László Krasznahorkai, won the Nobel Prize in 2025 and International Booker Prize in 2015: Chasing Homer

LOVED THE IDEA
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37. * Book where the first word of the second title: House at the End of Hope Street
38. * Is the same as the last word of the first title: Rental House

-. 2 Weeks: Elena knows what time the Sexton's spade doth rust.
39. * Book where the second book's title provides a response or continuation…: What Time the Sexton's Spade Doth Rust
40. * … of the first book's title: Elena Knows>>>>>>>>

-. 2 Weeks:
41. * Last name of one author: Phaedra Patrick - Rise & Shine, Benedict Stone
42. *... is the first name of the other author: Patrick Radden Keefe - Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

SOCIAL AWARENESS
44. A book about Women crossing borders and boundaries: The Lion Women of Tehran
45. A book connected to a Time's person of the year: Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel
46. A book exploring personal or cultural identity: Death of an Author
47. A book featuring a holiday that you don't celebrate: The Latke in the Library & Other Mystery Stories for Chanukah
48. A book nominated for an award that values peace, cultural understanding, and related social issues: Dayton Peace Prize: The Underground Railroad
49. A book that could fit the quote: “May you live in interesting times.”: So Far Gone
50. A book that includes a “forbidden” topic in polite conversation - the politics of vaccines: Vaccine Nation: Science, reason and the threat to 200 years of progress
51. A book that is related to one of the group’s moderators: Rad Women A-Z
52. A book that was banned or challenged: Freedom Writers Diary
54. A book with an orphaned or adopted character: BIPOC adoptee narrative:: Invisible Boy

WORLD AWARENESS
-. Three books: one in each quadrant of the world excluding North America::
55. * Read one book in the N+E hemispheres (Asia, Europe or Northern Africa): Europe (Belarus): A Replacement Life
56. * Read one book in the S+ E Hemispheres (Oceania, and Southern Africa): Oceania: Dragonfruit
57. * Read one book in the S+W hemispheres (South America): Habitus
58. A book about wildlife or nature conservation: The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
59. A book connected to the Middle East in some way: Author from Egypt: Woman at Point Zero
60. A book related to a national park: An Unforgiving Place
61. A book set in a country bordering the Indian Ocean: Kuwait: The Book Censor's Library
62. A book set in one of the world’s great cities: Tokyo: Salvation of a Saint
63. A book set in or near the Caribbean: Cuba: Simone
64. A book set in the opposite hemisphere from where you reside: Southern- Bolivia: Affections
65. A book that takes place in a country/place along the path of totality for the 2026 solar eclipse: Iceland: History. A Mess.
66. A book with a “green” topic or character: The World We Once Lived In - author founded the Green Belt Movement, an environmental non-governmental organization focused on the planting of trees, environmental conservation, and women's rights in Kenya
67. A book with a desert setting: Signs Preceding the End of the World

ATY - WINTER-THE TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS
Duration: December 1, 2025 - February 28, 2026
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1. The first letter of the title (excluding A, An and The)
2. The author's first and last initials
3. A genre on the main book page
4. The first initial of the first name of the book’s main character.
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